Q: What is the Digital Entrepreneurship course?

A: Digital Entrepreneurship has been designed to be a very hands-on course, but also a course where students need to reflect upon the academic discipline of being an entrepreneur.

Q: What new elements has Peaqs added to this course?

A: Peaqs really went through the roof when I used it the last time. We had a session where the different groups were presenting their start-ups in a pitch-form, and when they did that we used the gamification element of Peaqs to make the different groups do investments after they had seen the pitch presentations. And it went really well because it showcased that there is a strong correlation between how you have pulled together the pitch and how much investors are willing to invest afterwards.

Q: How have you integrated Peaqs into your course and which processes have become, easier, better,  or more impactful?

A: Blended learning comes from primarily digital tools that we use in order to have students be more aware of how they progress in their learning process, but also how to be more transparent about their learning process, when we used the Peaqs platform that is specifically designed to drive an entrepreneurial process from ideation to completion. It is a platform the students used to be more explicit about their process and then share it with their co-students.

Q: Does the platform allow for any peer to peer assessment and how? Why is that important?

A: Getting students to very quickly become able to explain what it is they are doing. When you work in a group and you have to decide ‘what should we share with others?’ then it triggers important discussions. That is a good way to initiate groupwork as well as to reflect the entrepreneurial process.

Q: What were the students reaction towards using Peaqs?

A: Peaqs turned out to be an important platform for creating transparency about what students were actually working with because Peaqs asks for certain deliveries in a phase-like process. It also gave us teachers an opportunity to much better follow the students’ work. Usually the students’ products and projects are very invisible to us teachers.

Q: How did Peaqs play into the CBS blended learning agenda?

A: I think Peaqs is for the future. It is a helpful tool to get the students to learn from each other and to get the best possible interaction between the groups and us, the teachers, because we have the full overview of where they are in their process.